I’ve been attempting to gather partnerships sites for Pajama Mommy Community I don’t know fully what partnerships do but hey I’ll make up my own rules! Who said you can’t right?

Well I’ve been looking and emailing places I contacted for example IBakeSale.com emailed them and gave them my proposal

Partner Link Swap
Link on a PR 6 blog thats in the top 100K in Alexa with over 3000 hits a day
1 Bake sale highlighted a week
Custom Message board section on the MB or just a small topic on the board
Banner ad into rotation (once installed)
Future partnerships with the sub-branches of the site once they are up and running.

I admitted that this is all brand new to me and the fact that the site is picking up quickly and expanding even quicker is also new and as am I so I don’t really know how to partner so if I’m missing something please let me know. Be honest but not stupid. Don’t allow someone to walk all over you.

After speaking to them at length about their goals with the website and my ideas it was pretty obvious it was a beneficial friendship. No partnership has been sealed but the fact is an offer extended such as guest blogging on their blog and offering things through mine was made apparent.

How did I manage this network, through a signature to my email account. I haven’t set it up fully so I just type it all in every email (silly right? What can I say.) However I didn’t realize when everyone said you need a signature in your email account its really important and now I know why. I took a survey which I won a $100 gift card, and they said so and so will contact you to find out which store you’d like to giftcard from. So the owner of Ibakesale.com, contacted me I sent them the URL to the store’s gift certificate and I wrote my little signature with the url to my 3 sites (tbw,pjm, namenova) and from there they said we would love your opinion on Ibakesale, to which I said I would love to partner, and from there it was countless emails back and back talking about all the business pluses and what we would like etc.

The main points are be honest, contact even big companies since you never know who is going to reply, or who you think is big but really is still a “boot strapped little guy”, offer more, let them know you’re open to suggestions and let them see you’re new but you’re trying. It helps.